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title: why did the king's dinner keep vanishing, lol? — Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: why did the king's dinner keep vanishing, lol? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1527 «Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, part 24: stolen dinners lead the King to the real Princess» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's 
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# Test 9 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, part 24: stolen dinne…

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why did the king's dinner keep vanishing, lol?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dinner · **What happens:** keep, vanish · **To what, where:** dinner

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1527 «Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, part 24: stolen dinners lead the King to the real Princess» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1527-pg540-part24/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1527-pg540-part24:t9:1
# text = why did the king's dinner keep vanishing, lol?
1	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
7	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	vanishing	vanish	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
10	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present |  | the king's dinner |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **vanish** | gerund | the king's dinner *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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the cook was hiding it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1527-pg540-part24:t9:o1:1
# text = the cook was hiding it
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | past · progressive | the cook | it |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Frisk kept stealing it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1527-pg540-part24:t9:o2:1
# text = Frisk kept stealing it
1	Frisk	frisk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	stealing	steal	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | Frisk |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **steal** | gerund | Frisk *not said here* | Frisk |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the Princess had sent a spell to hide it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1527-pg540-part24:t9:o3:1
# text = the Princess had sent a spell to hide it
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Princess |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination spell=Theme |
| 2 | **hide** | to-infinitive |  | spell |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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the Prime Minister ate it secretly every night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1527-pg540-part24:t9:o4:1
# text = the Prime Minister ate it secretly every night
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Prime	Prime	PROPN	NNP	_	3	compound	_	_
3	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | the Prime Minister | it |  |  | night | secretly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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